Fitting Monstrous Crimes into a Legal Framework
April 26, 2010
April 26, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 26 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news release:
Categorizing crimes is a necessary step in the legal process. When it comes to crimes as heinous as genocide, that codifying can be uncomfortable, like reducing a pile of dead bodies into solely a sanitation issue.
"In the non-legal context, genocide has come to be thought of as the epitome of 'evil,'" writes Vanderbilt philosopher Larry May in his new book, Genocide. &q . . .
Categorizing crimes is a necessary step in the legal process. When it comes to crimes as heinous as genocide, that codifying can be uncomfortable, like reducing a pile of dead bodies into solely a sanitation issue.
"In the non-legal context, genocide has come to be thought of as the epitome of 'evil,'" writes Vanderbilt philosopher Larry May in his new book, Genocide. &q . . .